Facebook Fired Employee Who Collected Evidence of Potential Political Bias

Re:Facebook Fired Employee Who Collected Evidence of Potenti... by baby on Thursday August 06, 2020 @11:15PM (#24077681)

Don’t know that specific story but the culture at FB is pretty open and people ask hard questions all the time on workplace and at Q&As. So it’s sad to see some people abusing this knowing that not that many companies are open to such internal dialogues. Tragedy of the common.

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Re:Facebook Fired Employee Who Collected Evidence of Potenti... by devin on Thursday August 06, 2020 @11:39PM (#24077906)

commons

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Re:Facebook Fired Employee Who Collected Evidence of Potenti... by social_quotient on Friday August 07, 2020 @06:54AM (#24080520)

It’s pretty meta to read it as a single “common” if it was on purpose.

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Re:Facebook Fired Employee Who Collected Evidence of Potenti... by mdonahoe on Friday August 07, 2020 @10:20AM (#24082127)

“Common” stock? Maybe it was a joke.

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Re:Facebook Fired Employee Who Collected Evidence of Potenti... by xoxoy on Thursday August 06, 2020 @11:24PM (#24077763)

what about the engineer who jumped to his death after a bad review?

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Re:Facebook Fired Employee Who Collected Evidence of Potenti... by baby on Thursday August 06, 2020 @11:26PM (#24077782)

Do you have a specific question? It’s tragic obviously and impacted many of us.

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Re:Facebook Fired Employee Who Collected Evidence of Potenti... by shajznnckfke on Thursday August 06, 2020 @11:43PM (#24077943)

(different commenter here)

Of the handful of people I know who work at FB, all of them are super smart and motivated. Half of them have expressed a lot of anxiety, stress, and imposter syndrome to me over their reviews. I’ve seen this at other companies when a project is failing but I hear about it at FB from A players who are working on successful projects. It gives me the impression the managers must be brutal - like they just push harder than other companies and make people feel they aren’t good enough to get more output. These are my impressions as an outsider. Does it seem fair to you?

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Re:Facebook Fired Employee Who Collected Evidence of Potenti... by ubermon on Friday August 07, 2020 @01:11AM (#24078576)

I think not manager but peers. They are mostly over achievers and somewhat competitive.

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Re:Facebook Fired Employee Who Collected Evidence of Potenti... by Infinitesimus on Friday August 07, 2020 @07:33AM (#24080766)

Is that because leadership rewards such behavior? I wonder if pressure would be the same If working 12hr days is discouraged and emphasis placed on collaboration and team delivery.

Leadership sets the tone and culture so it's always leadership's fault if culture is toxic.

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Re:Facebook Fired Employee Who Collected Evidence of Potenti... by marta_morena_25 on Thursday August 06, 2020 @11:29PM (#24077814)

Re-evaluate life choices if a 400k salary makes you commit suicide? He should have had enough money to do whatever for quite some time. Its tragic that he didn't but there are literally billions of people worse off all around the world and nobody talks about them.

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Re:Facebook Fired Employee Who Collected Evidence of Potenti... by xoxoy on Thursday August 06, 2020 @11:47PM (#24077988)

pretty sure it’s more complicated than that eg H1B status means leave the country if you’re fired, and to assume you cannot he stressed about a job or life because you make a nice salary is a very naive take.

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Re:Facebook Fired Employee Who Collected Evidence of Potenti... by austhrow743 on Thursday August 06, 2020 @11:45PM (#24077973)

What about beloved, famous, and rich actor Robin Williams who hung himself?

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